Lina Gonzalez-Granados conducts Brahms
with the NAC Orchestra
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JESSICA HUNT Climb (Canadian Premiere)
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RICHARD STRAUSS Oboe Concerto
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JOHANNES BRAHMS Symphony No. 2
- In-person event
- Bilingual
- ≈ 2 hours · With intermission
- Jessica Hunt’s Climb uses music to share the physical sensations she experiences living with a disability, creating a profound and beautiful work.
- A chance meeting at the end of WWII between German composer Richard Strauss and a U.S. intelligence officer inspired this sublime oboe concerto.
- Brahms’s Symphony No. 2 chases the April showers away and ushers the sunshine in.
This evening performance will combine a contemporary piece with traditional classics, led by masterful guest conductor Lina Gonzalez-Granados. Hailing from Cali, Colombia, she is recognized internationally for her “raw power” (LA Times) and was listed in Bloomberg Línea's
"Influential Latinos of 2022.”
Jessica Hunt’s Climb opens a musical window into life with a disability, offering a view “into what it feels like to live in a chronically ill body.” Inspired by the letters of Ludwig van Beethoven, Climb honours the universality of feelings, from fear to joy, experienced by anyone who lives with a disability. The title refers to her own experience with the simple act of climbing stairs.
Richard Strauss’s oboe concerto is a soaring, bold, and beautiful work that barely gives the oboe soloist any time to breathe. Featured oboist Charles Hamann, who has been the NAC Orchestra’s own Principal Oboe since 1993, carries it with style and ease.
Johannes Brahms was a man with a sense of humour, and his Symphony No. 2 is cheery and bright, a sunny-with-chance-of-showers symphony. Listen in the first movement for pieces of his famous children’s lullaby, and in the opening notes of the second movement for one of the most beautiful melodies he ever wrote.
